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      WHAT KATY DID

      Susan Coolidge

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       Copyright

      Harper Press

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

      77–85 Fulham Palace Road

      Hammersmith

      London W6 8JB

      Susan Coolidge asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Life & Times section © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

      Gerard Cheshire asserts his moral rights as author of the Life & Times section

      Classic Literature: Words and Phrases adapted from

       Collins English Dictionary

      Source ISBN: 9780007920648

       Ebook Edition © September 2012 ISBN: 9780007502752

       Version: 2014-11-12

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      CONTENTS

       Title Page

      Copyright

      History of Collins

      Life & Times

      To Five

      Chapter 1 The Little Carrs

      Chapter 2 Paradise

       Chapter 6 Intimate Friends

       Chapter 7 Cousin Helen’s Visit

       Chapter 8 To-Morrow

       Chapter 9 Dismal Days

       Chapter 10 St. Nicholas and St. Valentine

       Chapter 11 A New Lesson to Learn

       Chapter 12 Two Years Afterward

       Chapter 13 At Last

       Classic Literature: Words and Phrases adapted from the Collins English Dictionary

       About the Publisher

       History of Collins

      In 1819, millworker William Collins from Glasgow, Scotland, set up a company for printing and publishing pamphlets, sermons, hymn books and prayer books. That company was Collins and was to mark the birth of HarperCollins Publishers as we know it today. The long tradition of Collins dictionary publishing can be traced back to the first dictionary William published in 1824, Greek and English Lexicon. Indeed, from 1840 onwards, he began to produce illustrated dictionaries and even obtained a licence to print and publish the Bible.

      Soon after, William published the first Collins novel, Ready Reckoner, however it was the time of the Long Depression, where harvests were poor, prices were high, potato crops had failed and violence was erupting in Europe. As a result, many factories across the country were forced to close down and William chose to retire in 1846, partly due to the hardships he was facing.

      Aged 30, William’s son, William II took over the business. A keen humanitarian with a warm heart and a generous spirit, William II was truly ‘Victorian’ in his outlook. He introduced new, up-to-date steam presses and published affordable editions of Shakespeare’s works and Pilgrim’s Progress, making them available to the masses for the first time. A new demand for educational books meant that success came with the publication of travel books, scientific books, encyclopaedias and dictionaries. This demand to be educated led to the later publication of atlases and Collins also held the monopoly on scripture writing at the time.

      In the 1860s Collins began to expand and diversify and the idea of ‘books for the millions’ was developed. Affordable editions of classical literature were published and in 1903 Collins introduced 10 titles in their Collins Handy Illustrated Pocket Novels. These proved so popular that a few years later this had increased to an output of 50 volumes, selling nearly half a million in their year of publication. In the same year, The Everyman’s Library was also instituted, with the idea of publishing an affordable library of the most important classical works, biographies, religious and philosophical treatments, plays, poems, travel and adventure. This series eclipsed all competition at the time and the introduction of paperback books in the 1950s helped to open that market and marked a high point in the industry.

      HarperCollins is and has always been a champion of the classics and the current Collins Classics series follows in this tradition – publishing classical literature that is affordable and available to all. Beautifully packaged, highly collectible and intended to be reread and enjoyed at every opportunity.

       Life & Times

       What Katy Did

      The title of this novel is intended as a subtle joke around a play on words. In the US, bush-crickets are known as katydids, because the males elicit a mating call that sounds like the trisyllabic mantra ‘ka-ty-did’. On the original front cover of What Katy Did, there was a drawing of five anthropomorphic katydids. The joke is that the katydid insects see and tell ‘what Katy did’ as she goes about her tomboyish mischief in the story. The author imagines they are saying, ‘Katy did this, Katy did that’ as ever-present tattletales, in much the same way that young children are driven to tell the truth about the wrongdoings of their siblings and friends.

      The Author and her Female Contemporaries

      Susan Coolidge was the oddly modern-sounding pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, the daughter of wealthy American parents from Cleveland, Ohio. She worked as a nurse during the American Civil War. Woolsey was 30 years old when the war ended and she decided to devote her

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